Re: Compiling XWin (modular Xorg)
On Dec 11, 2007 11:49 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Janjaap Bos wrote: The changes I made are all in the patch. Let me know when you have suggestions, and whether you're able to build it. Perhaps Yaakov is willing to check it with his findings. Thank you VERY much. I will try to look into this into the near future, as the server is the only holdup in getting X11R7 finished on Cygwin. Hi all, Have you guys checked out the Xming patches (http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingCode/)? Most of them modify code that is the same as we use and contain many fixes to current problems we are experiencing, such as the 24bpp issue. Also, a lot of AG's fixes he did not commit to either trunk or the cygwin branch. He's also come up with a rather unsavory, yet workable hack to the overloaded function issue. There are a ton of DD improvements to the GLX acceleration code, too. Admittedly, the person who runs that project is still using monolithic as the base and has a rather bizarre way of updating the sources uses modular code, but still, it ought to be worthwhile to check out. Unfortunately, he keeps his latest changes behind a donation paywall, but I'm sure if asked by a well know cygwin-xorg developer, he would be willing to part with them. As for the overloaded function problem, I do recall we had this same issue back in 2002-2003 with shared libXt. You might want to search through the archives on that one for the whole story. It was a real frustrating problem to deal with, but a good solution was found that worked well. I had a thought on packaging. Perhaps we should adopt the Fedora scheme? I mean they seem to have packaged it nicely without having 60+ packages. We would still want our versioned packages for the runtime, but it should help to cut down on the number of packages without having binary compatibility problems. You could then use the current cygwin x11-xorg package names as collection stubs for the individual ones. Just a thought. Cheers, Nicholas -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Compiling XWin (modular Xorg)
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:55:17PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote: On Dec 11, 2007 11:49 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Janjaap Bos wrote: The changes I made are all in the patch. Let me know when you have suggestions, and whether you're able to build it. Perhaps Yaakov is willing to check it with his findings. Thank you VERY much. I will try to look into this into the near future, as the server is the only holdup in getting X11R7 finished on Cygwin. Hi all, Have you guys checked out the Xming patches (http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingCode/)? Most of them modify code that is the same as we use and contain many fixes to current problems we are experiencing, such as the 24bpp issue. Also, a lot of AG's fixes he did not commit to either trunk or the cygwin branch. He's also come up with a rather unsavory, yet workable hack to the overloaded function issue. There are a ton of DD improvements to the GLX acceleration code, too. Admittedly, the person who runs that project is still using monolithic as the base and has a rather bizarre way of updating the sources uses modular code, but still, it ought to be worthwhile to check out. Unfortunately, he keeps his latest changes behind a donation paywall, but I'm sure if asked by a well know cygwin-xorg developer, he would be willing to part with them. As for the overloaded function problem, I do recall we had this same issue back in 2002-2003 with shared libXt. You might want to search through the archives on that one for the whole story. It was a real frustrating problem to deal with, but a good solution was found that worked well. I had a thought on packaging. Perhaps we should adopt the Fedora scheme? I mean they seem to have packaged it nicely without having 60+ packages. We would still want our versioned packages for the runtime, but it should help to cut down on the number of packages without having binary compatibility problems. You could then use the current cygwin x11-xorg package names as collection stubs for the individual ones. Just a thought. Who are you talking to here exactly? We don't have a Cygwin/X maintainer so any suggestions or great ideas are guaranteed not to be implmenented. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Compiling XWin (modular Xorg)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Janjaap Bos wrote: The changes I made are all in the patch. Let me know when you have suggestions, and whether you're able to build it. Perhaps Yaakov is willing to check it with his findings. Thank you VERY much. I will try to look into this into the near future, as the server is the only holdup in getting X11R7 finished on Cygwin. Yaakov -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHX2hapiWmPGlmQSMRCIKCAKDbGhhBOCiOALHQe3kWqi6c6YXiZwCg9dWt mnP0hk/ggCSEdu8nMgFmu+A= =DsyS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
